Contents tagged with General Software Development
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Code Contracts: Hiding ContractException
It’s time to move on and improve my randomizer I wrote for an example of static checking of code contracts. In this posting I will modify contracts and give some explanations about pre-conditions and post-conditions. Also I will show you how to avoid ContractExceptions and how to replace them with your own exceptions.
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Why Software Sucks...and What You Can Do About It – book review
How do our users see the products we are writing for them and how happy they are with our work? Are they able to get their work done without fighting with cool features and crashes or are they just switching off resistance part of their brain to survive our software? Yeah, the overall picture of software usability landscape is not very nice. Okay, it is not even nice. But, fortunately, Why Software Sucks...and What You Can Do About It by David S. Platt explains everything.
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Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer – book review
Agile development expects mind shift and developers are not the only ones who must be agile. Every chain is as strong as it’s weakest link and same goes also for development teams. Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer by Scott W. Ambler is book that calls also data professionals to be part of agile development.
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Quick example: why coding standards must be in place
One quick example why coding standards must be in place. Take a look at the following code – property names are changed but not anything else.
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Who is code wanderer?
In every area of life there are people with some bad habits or misbehaviors that affect the work process. Software development is also not free of this kind of people. Today I will introduce you code wanderer.
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The Mythical Man-Month – book review
Yesterday I finished reading the classic project management book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks. Well… this book made me think a lot about nature of software projects, how primitive is our understanding about them and why managing such projects is usually hard fighting with a lot of different issues. The book has also interesting content from the past that is really interesting reading. To understand where you are you should know where you come from.
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Code Metrics: Measuring LoC in .NET applications
My previous posting gave quick overview of code metric called Lines of Code (LoC). In this posting I will introduce you how to measure LoC in Visual Studio projects using Visual Studio Code Analysis and NDepend.
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Code Metrics: Lines of Code (LoC)
I started writing series of blog posting about code metrics. I plan to introduce different metrics and explain their meaning. Also I plan to introduce tools you can use to measure those metrics. Where possible I will introduce you how to use one or another metric. The first metric is the simplest one and it is called Lines of Code (LoC).
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IL perversions: throwing and catching strings
Inspired by Mohamed Mahmoud’s blog posting How to: Create Interfaces with Static Methods via IL? I wrote another sick example on IL (Intermediate Language) to show you how different is the world behind compilers. Tonight I have enough of exceptions, I want to throw some strings! Let’s do it!
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Visual Studio 2010: Visualizing dependencies
Visual Studio 2010 introduces new and cool feature – architecture diagrams that visualize dependencies between assemblies, namespaces and classes. In this posting I will show you how these diagrams look like and provide some explanations about how to read them.
